‘No one’s coming to save us’: Abortion campaigns scramble for limited cash
From deep-red Arkansas and Missouri to purple Arizona and Nevada, activists are already competing with each other. Read more at Politico
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Alabama Supreme Court rules embryos are children – news round-up
Alabama Supreme Court rules that frozen embryos outside the womb are children The lawsuit involved embryos stored at a fertility clinic in Mobile. According to the opinion, in 2020 a patient “managed to wander” into the fertility clinic and remove several frozen embryos from the nursery, according to the lawsuit. The patient dropped the frozen … Read more
This Lawmaker Wants to Jail People for Watching Porn
Dusty Deevers is a fundamentalist preacher. He’s also a state senator. And he insists he doesn’t see “any firewalls” between his two roles — as he crusades to outlaw porn, end what he decries as the “abortion holocaust,” and abolish no-fault divorce in Oklahoma. He argues that the sole purpose of government is to “promote … Read more
Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill
Those plans — and many more, including proposals to attack contraception access, use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to increase “abortion surveillance” and data collection, rescind a Department of Defense policy to “prohibit abortion travel funding,” punish states that require health insurance plans to cover abortion, and retool a law that is currently … Read more
House speaker’s Christian nationalist ties spark first amendment fears
WallBuilders expanded its ties with conservative state legislators by launching the “ProFamily Legislative Network” in 1998 to help push bills on abortion, LGBTQ+ rights and other hot button issues for the religious right, and host a yearly conference with legislators. Read more at The Guardian
GOP senators warn new Speaker on abortion
Republican senators worried about winning back the Senate majority in 2024 are discouraging Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from moving any national abortion legislation before next year’s election. Read more at The Hill
The new House speaker has a history of backing legislation against reproductive rights.
Up until recently, Johnson was a low profile member of Congress, but he has been a staunch supporter of anti-abortion efforts. For example, Johnson is one of 29 co-sponsors for a January 2023 bill aiming to defund Planned Parenthood. He also voted against the Right to Contraception Act — which still managed to pass in … Read more
Mike Johnson, theocrat: the House speaker and a plot against America
The ADF has always been opposed to privacy rights, abortion and birth control. Now Roe is gone, the group is laying the groundwork to end protection for birth control. Those who thought Roe would never be overruled should understand that the reasoning in Dobbs v Jackson is not tailored to abortion. Dobbs was explicitly written … Read more